{"id":13487,"date":"2017-04-03T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/armys-spartan-brigade-gets-a-new-leader\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:36:23","slug":"armys-spartan-brigade-gets-a-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/armys-spartan-brigade-gets-a-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Army\u2019s \u2018Spartan\u2019 brigade gets a new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE &mdash;<\/strong> Fit and ready for action, the Army&rsquo;s only airborne brigade in the Pacific now has a new leader.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Paul Larson assumed command of the Army&rsquo;s 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division during a ceremony Friday, March 24 on Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson. Larson takes over from Col. Scott Green, who was credited with making a number of improvements to the brigade&rsquo;s fitness during his 28-month stint leading the &ldquo;Spartan&rdquo; brigade.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His troopers are eating healthier than ever,&rdquo; said Maj. Gen. Bryan Owens, commander of U.S. Army Alaska.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story online at the Chugiak-Eagle River Star here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskastar.com\/2017-03-24\/army%E2%80%99s-spartan%E2%80%99-brigade-gets-new-leader\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.alaskastar.com\/2017-03-24\/army%E2%80%99s-spartan%E2%80%99-brigade-gets-new-leader<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>&#8226; Matt Tunseth is the editor of the Chugiak-Eagle River Star and can be reached at matt.tunseth@alaskastar.com.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; Fit and ready for action, the Army&rsquo;s only airborne brigade in the Pacific now has a new leader. Col. Paul Larson assumed command of the Army&rsquo;s 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division during a ceremony Friday, March 24 on Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson. Larson takes over from Col. Scott Green, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":13488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13487"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}